November 27, 2012

Declassify Netaji Files --- The Nation Wants to Know

His kin have approached the ministry:
Unveil secret files, reveal history.
Put an end to the nation's
Vague and wild speculations,
About Netaji's fate -- end the mystery.

26/11/2012: From a report in the TOI:

Did he die in the air crash? Or was the crash merely a decoy to
facilitate an escape to Russia? Was he imprisoned in the erstwhile Soviet Union
and die there? Did he go to China? Or did he return to India and live a
hermit's life on the outskirts of Delhi and die there? Sixty-seven
years after the last confirmed record of Subhas Chandra Bose boarding a
plane for Saigon on August 17, 1945, what happened to Netaji thereafter remains an enigma.

Now, his nephews, nieces and their children want the questions answered
and close the chapter on one of Independent India's most enduring
mysteries. They got together on Sunday to demand that secret files with
various ministries and intelligence organizations be declassified and
made public.